Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists, and media specialists to provide three distinct prisms through which to examine the medium of film in the context of the city. The book presents commentaries on particular films and their social and urban relevance, offering contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives, and documenting examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Bringing a diverse set of contributors to the collection, editors Edward Clift, Ari Mattes, and Mirko Guaralda offer readers a new approach to understanding the complex, multilayered interaction of urban design and film.

Forward Graham Cairns Introduction Edward M. Clift Section One: Film as Spatial Theory Various Chapter One: Unlawful entry: The imbrication of suburban space and police repression in Jonathan Kaplan's Los Angeles Ari Mattes Chapter Two: Blockbuster realism: Mapping Gotham in the Dark Knight films Jarrad Cogle Chapter Three: (Re-) Framing urbanity: Contestation, the moving image and the right to the city Joern W. Langhorst Chapter Four: Architects of Playtime: Cities as social media in the work of Jaques Tati Lisa Landrum Chapter Five: Film and the urban nightmare: Pier Vittorio Aureli's cityarchipelagos as urbanities woven from media images in Pete Travis's Dredd and Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises Maciej Stasiowski Section Two: Film as Spatial Research and Experiment Various Chapter Six: Hollywood menace: Los Angeles and mid-century modern dens of vice Gabriel Solomons Chapter Seven: A second life for a second city: Tradition and modernity in Guadalajara in the Summer Carmen Elisa Gómez-Gomez Chapter Eight: The cinematic image as an architectural conductor: A mediated hint from future architecture Aysegül Akçay Kavakoglu Chapter Nine: Berlin on film: A mediated and reconstructed city Graham Cairns Section Three: Film as Spatial Practice Various Chapter Ten: The grey area between reality and representation: The practices of architects and film-makers Gemma Barton Chapter Eleven: Electric Signs revisited Alice Arnold Chapter Twelve: Public and urban humanities: Beyond the ideal city Luisa Bravo Chapter Thirteen: The mediating city: Towards a mise-en-scéne for interaction online Benjamin Koslowski Epilogue Ari Mattes and Mirko Guaralda

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“This collection examines the relationship between these [architecture and film] in truly 21st-century terms…The editors make readers familiar with international trends that illustrate the growing nexus between film and architecture and the rich body of new creative work being produced as a result of this intersection.”

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